Tag: Sally Rooney

• TV Viewpoint: Conversations with Friends about life after Beth

  

  THERE is a moment in every successful comedian’s life when they must decide whether they are willing to risk alienating their core audience in order to try something new, something different, something challenging. This certain something is nearly always a serious, gritty endeavour and has often turned out to be a career defining move. We’ve […]

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  May 25, 2022

  TV

  Amy Schumer, Conversations with Friends, Disney, Hulu, Life and Beth, Normal People, RTE One, Sally Rooney

• Beautiful World, Where are You by Sally Rooney review

  

  Third time’s a charm for Sally Rooney. Published by Faber & Faber.RRP €17.99. Sally Rooney’s third novel is a triumph. There, I’ve said it. I didn’t really understand the hype of Normal People; I thought it was fine, showed a lot of potential, heralded an exciting new Irish writer to watch. Then along came the […]

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  October 28, 2021

  Books

  Beautiful World Where Are You, Faber & Faber, Faber and Faber, Irish Fiction, Irish Writing, Sally Rooney

• Normal People by Sally Rooney review

  

  Published by Faber and Faber Normal People, Sally Rooney’s successor to her debut hit Conversations with Friends is exactly what it says on the tin, if you subscribe to the idea that no one’s actually what we might think of as normal at all. Complicated, yes. Emotional and irrational and level-headed and serious all at […]

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  October 5, 2018

  Books

  Book Review, Books, Faber & Faber, Faber and Faber, Irish Fiction, Irish Writers, Normal People, Sally Rooney